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When Will Wikipedia Rank for Everything?

Went Hot: November 21, 2007 - 6:35 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 593 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO

Aaron Wall briefly analyzes Wikipedia's rankings for a number of very competitive terms, and for a few terms it does not rank well for, then suggests what Wikipedia could do to rank for virtually all terms. I love the simplicity of Aaron's post! He's right!

I suspect this is Aaron firing a shot back at Matt.

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from JohnWeb 593 days ago #

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Actually it's Giovanna Wall whom I believe who wrote the post, but very good as well.

from jeffquipp 593 days ago #

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Good point John ... thanks for clarifying.

from Halfdeck 593 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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"By fixing the above issues, they may very well rank for the remaining 11 keywords."

Wikipedia has no interest in ranking for those terms.

from Chris1 593 days ago #

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Why would wikipedia rank for those terms? No one is going to wikipedia to get information on "mortgage rates", "insurance quotes" or "loan consolidation". These are commercial terms. Its the same reason why wikipedia ranks third for the term "aruba", but does not rank for the term "book a trip to aruba" (at least not in the top 50).

from GerBot 593 days ago #

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I think you'll need to give it a few more months yet. They only rank 6th on my browser right now :)

from seobook 593 days ago #

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>I suspect this is Aaron firing a shot back at Matt.

My wife is far sweeter than I and no shots were intended at anyone. In fact, TheMadHat posted a similar post a couple months back
http://www.themadhat.com/search-engines/wikipedia-has-the-answer/
and Wikipedia dominates Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft alike.

from yutube 593 days ago #

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thanks